About Em

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Emily is an actor, writer, director, producer and clown originally from Tucson, Arizona. Her television credits include The Blacklist (NBC) and Blue Bloods (CBS), and she appears alongside Winona Ryder and Peter Sarsgaard in the feature film Experimenter. She also stars in the short comedy White Lies, shot by Brian O’Carroll, a three-time winner of the Emerging Cinematographer Award. 

You can find her sketch and character comedy in her web series Literally Saying and other self-produced shorts on her YouTube Channel.

Her short film Broad Daylight,—a thriller about a journalist bargaining for her life during a volatile ride-along with a border agent—was an official selection of the 2018 Studio City International Film Festival and is now streaming on Amazon Prime.

Emily is the Founder and Executive Producer of The Cut Off Short Collective, a short film production group with three completed films to date. Catch the film she directed, Sunflower Sisters, at LA Shorts International Film Festival 2026!

Her character clown solo show Grin and Bear It, premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival June 2025 to a sold out run! Work-in-progress performances have been featured at Public Displays of Altadena, Elysian Theater, Lyric Hyperion and UCB. Next show will be at UCB Franklin July 2nd at 7pm. Tickets on sale now!

Emily trains with Risa Bramon Garcia in the ongoing master class at The BGB Studio, where she also teaches Teen Acting. She has taken clown with Claire Woolner, Zach Steel, Chad Damiani, Corey Podell, John Norris and Natasha Mercado. Her New York training includes on-camera acting with Kelly Kimball and Janine Ditullio at Kimball Studio; improv and sketch at The Upright Citizens Brigade NY with Ryan Karels, Ben Rogers, Gavin Speiller, Kevin Hines, and Kate Riley; and directing, scene study and clown at The Barrow Group with Seth Barrish, Lee Brock and Jean Taylor. She is a graduate of The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts.